Hopefully someone can help me with my Potteron CFL 80 which is driving me up the firkin wall.
The boiler is located in my cellar, with a conventional flue which finishes above the guttering at the top of the house. There is a cowling on top of the flue.
For the past three years whenever there have been very strong winds the boiler has locked out with the red light permanently lit. It will not reset and consequently I have had the following replaced:
7 x PCBs (or maybe eight)
2 x gas valves
and a variety of other bits that I have forgotten about.
Fortunately, the boiler is now covered through Domestic and General and Baxi Potterton so I actually only paid out for one PCB before joining a cover plan. But not once has any one (not even one of Baxi Potterton's time-served senior engineers) been able to give a simple explanation why this keeps happening.
I tell them until I am blue in the face that the wind causes the PCB to fry itself. They say that this is impossible and that the wind would simply blow out the pilot light or cause the boiler to shut down temporarily because of the air pressure.
I wonder if the wind is causing the fan to work harder, increasing the resistance and shorting the board (hey - it's a better explanation than anyone else has come back with).
Anyway, another engineer will come tomorrow and throw another PCB at the problem without actually fixing it. Meanwhile the lovely spring weather, snow and gale force winds continue and I'm starting to get cold again.
Sorry for the length of my first post but does anyone have any bright ideas on this one. Thanks.
The boiler is located in my cellar, with a conventional flue which finishes above the guttering at the top of the house. There is a cowling on top of the flue.
For the past three years whenever there have been very strong winds the boiler has locked out with the red light permanently lit. It will not reset and consequently I have had the following replaced:
7 x PCBs (or maybe eight)
2 x gas valves
and a variety of other bits that I have forgotten about.
Fortunately, the boiler is now covered through Domestic and General and Baxi Potterton so I actually only paid out for one PCB before joining a cover plan. But not once has any one (not even one of Baxi Potterton's time-served senior engineers) been able to give a simple explanation why this keeps happening.
I tell them until I am blue in the face that the wind causes the PCB to fry itself. They say that this is impossible and that the wind would simply blow out the pilot light or cause the boiler to shut down temporarily because of the air pressure.
I wonder if the wind is causing the fan to work harder, increasing the resistance and shorting the board (hey - it's a better explanation than anyone else has come back with).
Anyway, another engineer will come tomorrow and throw another PCB at the problem without actually fixing it. Meanwhile the lovely spring weather, snow and gale force winds continue and I'm starting to get cold again.
Sorry for the length of my first post but does anyone have any bright ideas on this one. Thanks.
